Media are invited to attend a formal, celebratory ceremony installing Kevin O’Brien, S.J., as the 29th president of Santa Clara University…
Delegates representing more than five dozen universities across the United States—including 16 Jesuit institutions— will join SCU faculty, trustees, and leadership in procession in the first such formal academic ceremony since 2009, when former President Michael Engh, S.J., was inaugurated.
Attendees will hear from welcoming speakers including Georgetown President John J. DeGioia; San Jose Bishop Oscar Cantu; Silicon Valley Leadership Group CEO Carl Guardino, and others. After his ceremonial missioning and investiture by Jesuits West Provincial Scott Santarosa, S.J. and SCU Board of Trustees Chair John M. Sobrato, President O’Brien will give an inaugural address to an estimated 2,000 guests who will fill the Leavey Center.
In the days prior to the ceremony, guests are being invited to numerous inauguration-related events, including several focused on the plight of migrants and immigrant families. That focus reflects President O’Brien’s deep commitment to vulnerable migrants and refugees, nurtured during his years as a chaplain with Jesuit Refugee Service and frequent visits to the Kino Border Initiative working with migrants along the Nogales border of Arizona and Mexico.
Among the inauguration-related events, each of which will be attended by Fr. O’Brien:
• “Separating Children and Families of Refugees.” A panel on Monday, Oct. 7, will focus on the context and history of child detentions and family separations that continue to occur at U.S. borders. Speakers will include Julissa Arce, author and immigration activist; Mimi Nguyen, attorney with Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County; and Deep Gulasekaram, Santa Clara University law professor.
• Prayer Service for Migrants. On Wednesday, Oct. 9 from 4 to 5 p.m., the campus community will join in a posada-style prayer service, walking among three campus locations in prayer for migrants worldwide.
• Clothing Drive for Migrants. All week, campus members will be encouraged to contribute to a clothing drive for migrants.
The above comes from a Santa Clara University press release.
Soon at this school there will be no tuition for illegals, only the hardworking parents of citizen students will have to pony up the money. Always the immigration issue, as though there are no others.
THE LACK OF INFORMATION OR PERHAPS SELECTIVE IGNORANCE DEEMS IMMIGRANTS A GROUP THAT BURDENS TAXPAYERS, IRONICALLY THE REVERSE IS TRUE, UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS DO NOT COLLECT UNEMPLOYMENT, DO NOT VOTE, THEY DO HOWEVER PAY TAXES AS DEDUCTED BY EMPLOYER’S OFF THEIR EARNING WITH LITTLE IN RETURN, THEY EARN AND DESERVE EDUCATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR ADVANCING THE EDUCATIONAL PREFERENCES OF NON-MIGRANTS THRU THEIR TAX CONTRIBUTIONS.
“THEY EARN AND DESERVE EDUCATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR ADVANCING THE EDUCATIONAL PREFERENCES OF NON-MIGRANTS THRU THEIR TAX CONTRIBUTIONS.”
. . . tax contributions from illegal work? That’s important to mention, no?
Like all other Jesuit–run universities— Santa Clara University has not embraced Catholic teaching for decades! A very secular, modern, liberal-leftist, “politically-correct” university– not a good school for Catholic students!
It’s great that the new president of Santa Clara is so concerned about the migrants…..
However, if Abortion is not ended there won’t be any people around, LIFE is the foundation, just as a building is the foundation !! If you have no foundation the building falls apart!!!!!!
If Fr. O’Brien has a good enough heart to care about the plight of immigrants, then I trust he’ll also care about the plight of his students, who are being led into serious sin by his own university.
Santa Clara’s health center directs SCU students to these pages:
a. https://www.scu.edu/cas/wgst/beyond-the-classroom/lgbtq-resources/
b. http://youthspace.org/about-us/
Both are big problems. The second resource, for example, explicitly promotes “safe sex supplies/condoms.” It is unthinkable that a Catholic university would direct its students to evil like this.
The lives of immigrants are important, but it’s Santa Clara’s students — and their souls — that are in Fr. O’Brien’s care now. For the good of his own soul, I hope he does care.